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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-03-02
THE RANDOLPH COUNTY FAD
MERS' INSTITUTE

We have heretofore called alton
ton to the fact, (and commendoI
the movement) that a farmers insti
tute is to be held at Asheboro, Ran
dolph county, on the 10th and 17tb
Of this month, which promises to ba
a very interesting event and a grand
Every farmer in the Conn.
ty who takes any interest in the
progress of his profession is cordial,
l,y invited to attend and participate
in the proceedings. The committee
having the arrangements in charoe
have enclosed us a circular, as fol.
lows, which we gladly publish
"The following vital topics are embraced
in the programme: General Farm
Management" Wheat Raising" "Hogs
and Our Meat Supply" The Orchard9s"
"The Dairy" Grass and Clover" SCAR.
dening," Clean Seeding" "Corn Rails.
ing" Manure Making,' "Stock Rails.
ing" "The Chemistry of the Farm
"Our Homes" Education for the Far
mer," How to Improve Land" Cook.
ing" "Sheep Husbandry,"" Tobacco
Culture" Farmer Boys" etc.
"Practical, successful men have been
chosen to lead on each subject. Several
distinguished speakers will make adj
dresses and read papers on the above
topics, during the Institute. Let every
wide-awake farmer in the county devote
TWO whole days of earnest, solid work
for the unbuilding of Agriculture in Ran.
dolph county. The ladies are especially
invited to attend as they are directly con
cerned in whatever tends to promote the
farmers welfare.
"Ample arrangements will be made to
accommodate all visitors at reduced
rates."
This is a new departure, and it
mea much for the farmers Of Ran
dolph county, if they appreciate it
as they should, and take advantage
of tho opportunity it affords them
to learn much Of the things which
they should know. Let them catch
the spirit Of the progressive, brainy
men who originated this movement
and put it on foot. and the day is not
far distant when the farmers of Ran
dolph county may claim the proud
distinction of leading in the march
of progress and reform. She has
some men who honor the profession,
she should and may have many.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-03-02
THE NORTH CAROLINA WAY.

A merchant in Goldsboro adver-
tises the arrival Of one car of bulk
meat, n ear Of mess pork, one car
of lard, two ars of flour, one car of
timothy hay, two cars of seed oats,
one car Of corn, one a of bran, one
car of ship-stuff and chops, one car
Of bolted meal. A merchant in Con-
cord informed us recently that seven
hundred and fifty barrels Of flour
were shipped to that point in one
week. Thousands of dollars worth
of the above products are shipped
to Winston. The great bulk of these
things, is sold to farmers. The ars
gument Of the farmer is, that he can
buy them cheaper than he can pro-
duce them. We have seen men paw
n dollar per hundred for hay, who
can produce it at home at eight cents
per hundred, and yet these men talk
of hard times. Bankruptcy and ruin
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-03-02
1T WILL COME,

. The farmers of North Carolina
may not get all they ask nor all
they desire this year nor next year,
but if they cling together and per-
severe it is but a question of a little
time when they will get not only all
they ask but they will be offered
more than they have thought of
asking. They want the land scrip
fund which is thcirs-it kwill come:
They want an Agricultural College
it will come. They want the
recognition they IRE entitled to in
shaping the policy of the State-it
will come. They want convict labor
to give them better roads to market
1t will come. Some of these things
are coming now. Possibly they may
be delayed a little, but they are
coming all the same, and with them
other things which the farmers of
North Carolina wish and must have.
Already more has been accomplished
on this line than the most sanguine
friend of the farmer would have
hoped, twelve months ago.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-03-02
CONVICT LABOR IN ALABAMA.

The people of Alabama are, like
the people of North Carolina, dis
cussing the question of convict la
Dor. We elliptic following from the
Birmingham New South, a paper de-
voted to the industrial interests OF
that State:
7 "The farmers of Alabama ought to
speak out strongly against the attempt
that will doubtless be made at the com
ing session of the Legislature to bring
convict labor in competition with Their
labor. The bill, presented at the last
session, which provides for a convict
farm; ought to be summarily defeated.
The people of Alabama need and are en-,
titled to good roads, and it is the duty OF
their State Governmental provided them.
Put\the convicts to work on the public
roads"
The convict has been used in the
Southern States ever since the war
to build railroads for wealthy syndl-
Gates, and enrich individuals, while
the people derived no benefit what
ever from them. The farmers OF
North Carolina have demanded that
the convicts be put to work upon
the public roads, and the Legislature
responds to the demand by passing
a bill to give 325 of them for an IN,
definite period to drain swamps ana T.
cut roads through the property Of
private individuals. This is working
for the greatest good Of the greatest
number with a vengeance.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-03-02
ORGA

= The work Of organizing clubs con
tinues to progress in this State, and
our farmers are evidently taking a
new departure. The subjects under
discussion at these club meetings are
Of a practical character, on such
matters as our farmers are interest
ed in and the interest manifested in
these discussions shows that the
spirit Of progress is not confined to
a few men nor to a few clubs but is
becoming general. In some coun-
ties where there was no club three
months ago there are several now,
new ones being organized weekly,
and those already organized grow
ing stronger in numbers and in i'm
p%ortance. The value of the club as
an aid to the farmer is beginning to
be appreciated, and many who stood
aloof when the organization first be-
gan are now taking hold earnestly
and enthusiastically, and there is a
unanimity Of feeling being develop
ed, perhaps never before witnessed
in this State.
The result, so far has been good.
1t has resulted in a closer fellowship
between the followers of the pillow,
a determination to cooperate and
assist each other more than they did
in the past, to counsel together, and
work together for their mutual good.
There is evidence of the good re-
suits in the determination shown by
st many farmers to diversity their
crops more, to do less of borrowing,
buying on credit and mortgaging
their crops and stock, to buy less of
commercial fertilizers and make
more compost and ~barn-yard ma
nure, to cultivate fewer acres and
cultivate them better. If the clubs
had been instrumental in doing MOTH
ing more IN this alone they would
have accomplished a vast amount\of
good, for if these things be done "a
few years we'll see many of those
who struggle under heavy loads re-
lieved, standing upright, feeling like
different men, hopeful, cheerful, in
dependent. There is a magnetic
power in co-operation-and organi-
cation which enables those working
together to do infinitely more for
each and all than they could ever
hope to do when struggling without
concert, singly and alone.
We congratulate our farmers on
their progress in organizing clubs,
and wish the good work God speed.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-03-02
THE DEPARTMENT OF AGR1cUL-
TURE.

I'VE have been favored with a
printed copy of the billy introduced
in the House, by Mr. IL. r; Frles'
chairman of the House branch OF the
committee on Agriculture, for chang
ing the Department. Of Agriculture.
It required much thought and labor
to perfect a bill in conformity with
the views expressed by the Farmers
Convention, but we are pleased TO
say that in the main, the work has
been done admirably we'll, and II
passed, as reported, the farmers OF
the State, will be pleased. The far
mers outlined the changes they de.
sired, which have been formulated
by weeks Of Investigation and faith
full work on the part Of the commit
tee, and submitted to the Legislature
for it's action. The committee, we
are pleased to say, has done it's work
we'll, but it may undergo many
changes before it reaches the chairs
of the Speakers for their signatures.
Its fate will be known before our
next issue when we hope to lay be-
fore our readers, what has been done.
Of one thing the farmers of Forsyth
and of the whole State, who know
Mr.. Fries, have all the while felt as
sured, that their interests, as indi-
Gated by them to his committee,
could not have~been entrusted to a
more vigilant, more faithful or more
efficient friend.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-03-02

The House of Representatives last
Thursday refused, by a vote of 175 to
125, to pass the dependent pension bill
over the Presidents veto.
A Kentucky Judge recently sem
fenced a white man arrested for
.vagrancy, and i'll treatment of his family,
to be sold at public auction for a period
of IS days.
We appreciate the kind mention so
frequently made of THE PROGRESSIVE
FARMER by our brother editors of the
State press, and sincerely thank them
for their clever words and good will.
The Pennsylvania State Grange at
its recent session, adopted resolutions
asking the legislature of that State to
make. their State College "a practical
School of Agriculture and Mechanic
Arts"
The managers of the Eastern Caro-
lima Fair and Stock Association have
published their premium list for 1887
and are endeavoring to make the next
fair to be held October Goth, 9th and
2Sth, the best exhibition of field crops
they have ever had. e
The Sheriff of Caldwell COUNTY
offers for sale for taxes 42,1S3 acres OF
mountain land, the property of the
Western North Carolina Land Company.
He also offers for sale the tract on which
the celebrated Blowing Rock is located.
"A farmer from Stokes county
brought 1,4OO pounds of tobacco to
market last week GALL he raised), and
sold it. He then went to pay his guano
bill, paid all he got for his tobacco, five
dollars more, and still owes 81 80. Low
priced tobacco and high priced guano
don't work we'll together.
Senator VanWyck, of Nebraska,
has introduced a resolution in the Senate
asking that an amendment to the Con-
satution be submitted to the States.
providing for the election of U. S. Sena-!
tors by the people, instead of by the
legislatures of the States.
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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-03-02

will as surely and inevitably fono-~
such a suicidal policy, as night t" CIV
lows day. To arrest this fatal noI iol,
is the great and grand work Of pff fs
mers' organizations; they sbo~n
have the earnest and patriotic Su"
port and encouragement of ed;t"Ip'
merchants, professional men, and -
deed Of all citizens who hava III.
heart the well-being and hannino az
of our people.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-03-02
Winston, N. G., March 2, 1887.
This paper entered as second class matter at the
Post Office in Winston, N. CT
ENDORSED BY THE CONVEN-
TON.

The following resolution was
passed by the Farmers Mass Con
vention in Raleigh, January Goth,
1887:
ResO1re1, That "The Progressive
Farmer" published by L. L.. Polk, Win
ston. N. c., be declared the Official Or
gan of the North Carolina Farmers As
ISOLATION and that it's Editor, l.. l.. Polk,
be admitted to the privileges of the floor
as an honorary member of this Conven-
ton
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-03-02
THE CROSS MARK.

The cross mark on your paper in
dicates that the time for which you
subscribed has or is about to expire.
1t is to give notice SO your subscrip-
ton may be renewed. If the sub
scription be not renewed the name
will be dropped from the list, but we
want every one to renew and bring
a friend along too.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-03-02

~~We ask every Grange and1aa
Farmers Club in the State to send
us at once, the number of members
in the organization together with
the name and Postoffice address of
each officer.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-03-02

The Charlotte Township chain
gang was increased by Judge Meares'
court last week to about 40 members.
They are doing good work, it is said,
on the roads leading to the city
Charlotte Democrat.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-03-02
THE GRANGE.

Inquiry is made sometimes Win
reference to the organization OF ne"
Oranges and reviving dormant ones
Parties desiring to connect them
selves with the Grange or wishing
information on the subject OF orgahl-
zation should address the Secretary
of the State Grange, Mt: Pleasant
n. c., who will take pleasure III
directing them how to proceeo'
what the cost, &c.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-03-02

Some of our farmers will nave
nearly all of their corr to buy
Roanoke NeUs.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-09-16
THE RIGHT OF REMOVAL.

CiVil-Service Commissioner Oberly Con-
strues the Law as Expressly Forbidding
the Discharge Of Government EN-
ploye Because of His Politics.
WASHINGTON, Sept 9.--CiviI-Service COM
missioner Oberly has sent, in response to an
inquiry from Charles N Rowland chairman
of the Civil-Service Board of Examiners at
Cincinnati, a communication embodying
the views Of the commission respecting the
right of a postmaster to remove carriers
and clerks, except for causes named in the
Ciyil-Service law. The Commissioner says.
That every carrier and clerk in the Cincn.
natl post-off1ce might be legally removed for
cause is proposition on which you need no irl-
formation. 1t is, therefore, concluded that you
wish to know whether, in the opinion of the
commission, efficient carriers and clerks of
good character may be legally removed for par
tisan reasons-becalse they do not agree id
politics with the postmaster. The commission
has heretofore stated and now repeats, that the
power OF removal is unrestricted, except that a
removal may not be legally made for any one
of the following causes:
l. Because person in the service has refused
to contribute to political fund or for politi-
cal purpose. 2 Because person has refused
to render political service. 8. Because per-
son has refused to permit the appointing officer
or any other person in the civil service to CO.
cree his political action.
From the provisions OF the law and rules it is
concluded:
l. That it is unlawful to ask an applicant for
appointment under tie Civil Service law to
divulge his political opinions or affiliations.
2. That if the appointing officer ascertains
in any way what are the political opinions or
affiliations of any applicant for appointment it
is unlawful in hiTl to therefore either dscrim-
mate in the applicants favor or against him
that it is unlawful in the appointing officer to
appoint an eligible for the reason that he is
OR is ct Demo rat, or 10 refuse to appoint an
eligible for the reason that he is not a Repub.
lean, and vice versa
8. That it is unlawful to remove any person
from the public service for refusing to render
political service.
The law, fairly construed, is that entrance to
the classified civil service shall be upon the
merit of the applicant without regard to
his political opinions or affiliations and
that continuance in the service shall be
upon the employees merit, without regard to
his political opinions or affiliations. There
fore the appointing officer who appoints or re-
fuses to appoint an applicant because the ap-
plicant does or does not entertain certain polit-
ical opinions violates the law, and an appoint
ing officer who removes an employe because the
employe refuses to render political service in
accordance with the wishes of the appointing
officer because he is not political partisan Of
The appointing officer also violates the law.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-09-16

THE Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific
Railway Company announces the promo
ton of A. Kimball, late vice president and
general manager of the road, to the posi-
tion Of assistant to President Cables w
e. Purdy, secretary and treasurer, has, in
addition to these offices, been elected vice.
president of the company, E. st. John. for
many years identified with the passenger
department of the road, assumes the posi-
sition of general manager. and j. F. Phil
lips, late cashier, has been appointed assist
ant secretary and assistant treasurer
THE death of Governor Washington
Bartlett, of California, occurred at Oak
land on the 18th, aged sixty three years.
Mrs. ANN P. HENDRICKS, the widow of
the late William Hendricks, Indiana's
first United States Senator and second
Governor, expired at Madison, Ind, On the
18th, at the age of eighty-nine years.
The Rio Grande was reported on the
18th to be overlooking its banks and
large sections of Texas were being IN
undated. The little town of Edin burg was
threatened with complete destruction, sew
eral buildings have already been under
mined.
WILLIAM A. WASHINGTON, the nearest
relative of General George Washington
and the last male representative of the
name, died at Owens boro, Ky, on the 18th.
Four coored children perished in a
burning cabin at Dealsville, Ala, on the
18th.
THE application of the Governor of Hi
nois for the extradition of William J. Nc
Garigle, the escaped Chicago 'boodler." y
was received at Washington on the 18th.
1t was stated that the application was
based on a charge of conspiracy, for which
there was no provision in the existing
treaty; and legal point of great gravity
was involved in the case
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-09-16
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE,

In the English Parliament 1t was official
ly announced on the Sth that the King of
Samoa had been deposed by the Germans,
the English and American Consuls pro-
testing.
In the recent storms in Canada many
lives were lost and vessels wrecked.
IT was said on the Sth that the British
Government would improve and strengthen
the Notifications at Halifax, N. S., by
building new batteries, which will be fur
nished with elghty-two guns. The cost of
these works will be 81, 100000
THE Montreal grand jury on the Sth
found true bill against William j. Nc
Garigle, William Allan Pinkerton and
Michael Hickey, who, on four counts, are
charged with conspiracy against James
Baxter
A WARRANT was issued on the 9th for the
arrest of Editor O'Brien, he not appearing
at Mitcheltown, Ireland, for trial under
the Coercion act. An indignation meeting
was held, and conflict took place between
the police and soldiers and the populaca,
during which two of the latter were in
stantly killed and others were fatally and
seriously wounded.
THE release of Mr.. Doane, the American
missionary at the Caroline Islands, who
was lately arrested by the Spanish author
tiles there and imprisoned at Manila, was
ordered by the Spanish Government on
the 9th.
THE Austrian Consul at Bombay re.
ported on the 9th that during the month of
May there were 81, 1898 deaths from cholera
in India.
PoRTER's tannery and boot factory and
an adjoining tenement-house were burned
in Nor al hn r
NEAR Halifax, n S., four men were
drowned on the 10th by the capsizing of
boat
IT was reported from London on the 10th
that Henry M. Stanley was heard from on
July IL, month after his reported muir
der.
LONDON advices of the 10th report the
loss of vessel with fifty hands in the En-
glish channel.
In the streets of Cork through which
Mr.. O'Brien was taken to Jail on the 18th,
riot occurred, during which the mob
stoned the police, the latter charging with
batons and injuring many of their assal-
ants
ACCORDING to advices of the 18th four
teen men belonging to the schooner
Nance, of Pubnico, Nova Scotia, were
swept overheard and drowned during a
hurricane near the Grand Banks.
In the British House of Commons on the
18th the policy of coercion established by
the Government in IRELAND was censured
by Messrs Gladstone, Harcourt and
others, and was defended by Secretary
Balfour.
THREE soldiers sent to perform disin.
fecting duty were assaulted by q mob at
Trapini, Italy, on the 18th and one of
them was forced to drink carbolic acid,
from which he soon died IN horrible agony
The other two refused to drink the acid
and were killed.
FIENDs blew up the custom house at
Callao, Peru, by dynamite on tho 18th,
and six men were killed and eight others
were badly injured
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-09-16
M'GARlGLE INDICTED.

Canadian Grand Jury Returns True
Bills Against the Wandering BoodIer,''
Detective PinkertOn and Ex-CIief-of-
Police Hickey, of Chicago, in the Baxter
Case.
MONTREAL, Can, Sept 9.-The grand jury
yesterday morning found true bill against
'BoodIer" McGarigle, Detective Pinkerton
and Colonel Hickey, of Chicago, for con-
spiracy. The only witness examined was
James Baxter, who made the charge. Bax-
ter was examined at great length, and after
ten minutes elaboration unanimous bill
was returned
AS soon as the grand jury's pre-
sentiment was made Crown Prosecutor
Greenshields moved for bench warrant to
have McGarigle brought from Ontario to
answer the Indictment before the present
term of the Queens bench. The other de-
PENDANTS, he said, were beyond the jurisdic-
ton of che court Judge Baby replied that
the warrant would issue at once
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-09-16
WRECKED en- lie BANKS.

Terrible Effect of the Recent Gales of
the NewfoundIand Goisst-Over Sixty
Lives Lost and d Hundred Vessels Dam:
aged Ten British Scamen Drowned:
HALfFax, n. s., Sept 14-Disasters which
occurred during the recent gales ON the
banks are still being reported daily. The
schooner St Pierre passed st. Pierre bottom
up. Her crew Of sixteen men had all been
lost Vessels belonging to the French
codishing fleet report loss of fifty
lives One hundred vessels have been
badly damaged and have been withdrawn
from the fisheries This will decrease the
seasons catch 10000 quiftals and in COM
Sequence prices hive already advanced 10
per cent
sHELBURNE, N. s., Sept 1.-The schooner
Willie MCGOWAN, from Banquero, reports
that the crew of another schooner boarded
a fishing vessel, adrift, and found several
bodies floating in the cabin. The remainder
of the crew had evidently abandoned the
craft some time before, OF else had been
lost The flesh on the head Of one 8f the
drowned men had been eaten nearly all
away and all the bodies presented a horrible
sight The schooner is believed to be the
Ocean Bride of Boston
LONDON, Sept. 1.-THE British bark Balak-
lava, from London March % for San Fran
cisco, has arrived at Chloe dismasted She
lost ten seamen while off Cape Plllaron
July %. She will be towed to Ancul.